Monthly Archives: October 2007

Rsizr.com brings content aware image resizing to a free online service. To help you manipulate your photos and images. Not sure if it’s quite as exotic in terms of features as the demo, but definitely worth a look nonetheless. [Via Metafilter] Tags: rsizr, image+tool, photography

Brian at Gizmodo has put up a post which, carefully and with reluctance, outlines the reasons why Gizmodo no longer recommends the iPhone. It’s worth reading, as is the response from my friend Jack at the Guardian. I agree with the sentiments of both pundits, although I do wonder what would have happened had Microsoft pulled a stunt like this, i.e. crippling a product in such a deliberate and malicious way? How has Apple got away with this so easily? Is…

I’m assuming that the fact that this ordinary 1.2 GHz HP NC2400 Laptop has sold for £7,100.00 in a less than inflationary market, means that the eBay community is rallying to protect its own from some unscrupulous villain. Not having seen this before, I’m just guessing of course. Tags: ebay, fraud

LincMad’s Telephone Area Code Map of North America is a pretty useful tool to bookmark for reference if you need to call or identify people across the country. The tables are a little more obscure than necessary, but still it’s a nice resource. This map shows all telephone area codes in use as of 2007-02-22 in the United States and Canada. Area codes that have not yet taken effect are shown with a green line and the area code in…

Sometimes it helps to remember that there are people out there just doing their thing. Their skillful, artistic, painfully learned, incredible, practiced thing. Enjoy! World’s Fastest Secretary. She’s not real. No way. Nope. Can’t be? Speed Climbing. 400 foot straight up? Without a rope? On bare rock? Airbus Acrobatics. This pilot is either a genius or insane. Skateboarding Master. Rodney is just chuffin’ unbelievable. Dice Stacking Genius. So fast it looks like camera trickery. Rubik Madness. One handed Rubik’s Cube in 20…

The Bevy is the ultimate combo keychain lifestyle statement. Got an iPod Shuffle? Well this is a Shuffle case and earphone cable wrap in one. Thirsty? Bottle opener included too. Got keys? Well….break a leg mate. £9.95 ($20.00). This ingenious sliver of sturdy plastic and bottle top-biting metal functions as an iPod Shuffle case, a bottle opener and a keyring. Talk about multi-tasking!…The Bevy even features an ‘earphone cord manager’ which, in non-technobabble terms, means you can avoid tangled ‘phones by winding…

The Shoprider Flagship Enclosed Scooter gives a whole new slant to the world of mobility vehicles. No longer subject to inclement weather or unruly pigeons, you can scoot around outside and in without fear or recrimination. And no more bugs smearing the bifocals. Bliss. $6,595.00 with free shipping. The Flagship stylish canopy enclosure provides comfortable, all season transportation. Front and rear suspension for a great ride. Sturdy, locking doors that provide security. Removable doors for warm weather as well as convertibility….

MobileViewer is a Java program which gives control of up to 16 CCTV cameras from a GPRS enabled mobile phone. Yep, not only do have to suffer a shed load of cameras watching our every move, but now we’re going to get people doing the surveillance from their bath, pub, holiday home or desert palace. How perfectly beastly. And if you stick one of their £99.00 ConnectVu webcams on the other end, you’ll be able to snoop on someone in the…

Furutech DFV-1 LP Flattener. Slot in your vinyl LP, clamp together, switch on heater function and presto, no more warped album. No it won’t get rid of those nasty scratches, waddya want, blood? Anyway, we applaud the tech but feel compelled to ask, ‘Where were you when we had that massive Bee Gees collection back in the day, people?’ Followed up by – ‘$1,480.00? You’re kidding, right?’ [via Crunchgear] Every vinyl enthusiast has records in their collection, or come across LPs they’d love to own, but were just…

Wallcooler is a free personal VPN (Virtual Private Network). Install the program on both computers and you’ll be able to access your home computer from your laptop whilst on the road. The interesting thing is that you apparently don’t need to fiddle about with firewalls or port forwarding in order to get things working, which is a bonus over other free VPNs. You will however need an account with their server, which may be something you may want to think about…

Fluther is a free ‘question answer’ service. What makes it different is the straight up, no nonsense interface and the fact that it features instant chat to discuss answers. Whether these answers are any use is another matter entirely of course, which means that it has some way to go before it beats the venerable and much loved Ask Metafilter. Imagine having five Uncle Franks to answer your car questions, eight Aunt Marthas to ask about astronomy and six…